Can someone please point me to a good webpage where I can look at railroads from sattelites? I have seen it before on this forum but I can’t find the post.
I often use TerraServer-USA to look at overhead shots of railyards.
TerraServer is good. Here are 2 more:
http://www.terrafly.com/
this one sometimes has very good 3D views:
http://local.live.com/
earth.google.com - You can save locations, view the terrain and it’ uses the same data as Terraserver - and best of all - it goes outside the USA…
Very interesting, thanks. Here is a picture from Dotsero on D&RGW. Nice to have this tool for trackplanning.
Get yourself a copy of Google Earth, free download and very good indeed. Coverage is patchy but the high resolution areas are very good indeed. I spent some hours lately overflying assorted rail-related areas using it and was much impressed - you can even recognise the make/ model of cars parked by the line!
[#ditto]on the Google Earth. I view the entire yard (and the tracks leading into and leaving them) that is about 10-min. drive from my house. Pretty cool program! [tup]
Tom
Isn’t Google Earth a pay service that only works with broadband?
The basic service is free, I would’nt even try to load the frames with dialup.
I use Google Earth. Pretty cool, the other day I followed the tracks by my house all the way to the yard downtown![8D]
I’ve been extremely pleased with Google Earth. A much cruder approach would be to enter the location directly into Google.com and use the Hybrid Mapping.
google maps is also good, it has a map ans satellite view option.